Archive of postings to Panhala -- July 2010 to Present
July 2010
Why Bodhidharma Went to Howard
Johnson's -- Jane Hirshfield
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XXIX -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The Wish to Be Generous -- Wendell Berry
IF THE FALLING OF A HOOF -- Hafiz
One Hundred White-sided Dolphins on a Summer Day -- Mary
Oliver
A Morning Offering -- John O'Donohue
Old Man, Old Man -- David Wagoner
Now I become myself -- May Sarton
TIRED
OF SPEAKING SWEETLY -- Hafiz
The Love of Morning -- Denise Levertov
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, III -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved --
Gregory Orr
August 2010
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, IV -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Sabbaths 2000, III -- Wendell Berry
A Brave And Startling Truth
(excerpt) -- Maya Angelou
Prayer for a Tenspeed Heart --
Barbara Hendryson
Because we spill not only milk -- Nancy Shaffer
Book of Hours (Love Poems to God), II, 22 -- Rainer Maria
Rilke
In Praise of the Great Bull Walrus -- Alden Nowlan
We Are Listening -- Diane Ackerman
Evidence
(Part I) -- Mary Oliver
Picnic, Lightning -- Billy Collins
September 2010
A Contribution to Statistics -- Wislawa
Szymborska
Song of the Builders -- Mary Oliver
The Resemblance Between Your
Life and a Dog -- Robert Bly
Unison Benediction -- May Sarton
Remembering 9/11
A Great Need (story of a poem) -- Hafiz
(streaming media,
Internet Explorer only)
Having Come This Far -- James Broughton
This Amazing Day -- e. e. cummings
Journeying god -- Traditional (Ghana)
Trying to Be Thoughtful in the First Brights
of Dawn - Mary Oliver
Some
say you're lucky -- Gregory Orr
Everything Is Going to Be All Right -- Derek Mahon
In the Middle -- Barbara Crooker
October 2010
Nothing ... - Reinhold Niebuhr
On Pilgrimage -- Czeslaw Milosz
The Enigma We Answer by Living -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
Huddled Beneath the Sky -- Rumi
Rememberance --
Rainer Maria Rilke
Why is the Winter Light (excerpt) -- Franz Wright
Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields --
Susan Griffin
A Psalm of Life -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Celebrating rescue in Chile)
Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt -- Jane Hirshfield
What's In The Temple? -- Tom Barrett
What If This Road -- Sheenagh
Pugh
Book of Hours, II, 16 -- Rainer Maria Rilke
November 2010
The
Wolf -- Native American Story
The Sabbath Poems, 1993, I -- Wendell Berry
Flare
(Part 12) -- Mary Oliver
I love the dark hours -- Ranier
Maria Rilke
I Remember Galileo -- Gerald Stern
Give Us Courage -- Robert Louis Stevenson [for Veterans
Day]
For a Parent on the Death of a Child -- John O'Donohue
Possibilities -- Wislawa Szymborska
Above Everything -- David Ignatow
Welcome Morning -- Anne Sexton
Starting With Little Things -- William Stafford
ON
A DAY WHEN THE WIND IS PERFECT -- Rumi
White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field -- Mary Oliver
December 2010
I'M WORKING ON THE WORLD -- Wistawa
Szymborska
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, X - Rainer Maria Rilke
With
the morning dew -- Antonio Machado
Written on Christmas Eve, 1531 -- Fra Giovanni
January 2011
New Year Prayer -- David Whyte
Shoveling Snow With Buddha --
Billy Collins
Somewhere, something -- Blaise
Pascal
Blessed Are They Who Sow and Do Not Reap ... -- Avraham Ben Yitzhak
Become Becoming -- Li-Young Lee
Let my country awake -- Rabindranath Tagore
To the New Year -- W.S. Merwin
Sabbaths 1985, V -- Wendell Berry
Ceres Looks at the Morning (excerpt) -- Eavan Boland
For a New Beginning -- John O'Donohue
Proverbios y Cantares XXIX -- Antonio Machado
Sensation of the Mystical -- Albert Einstein
The Other World -- Anna Kamienska
February 2010
Millennium blessing - Stephen Levine
Poems from Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs -- Antonio
Machado
Praise
Song -- Barbara Crooker
The
Ball -- Wislawa Szymborska
The Poet with His Face in His Hands -- Mary Oliver
A Message from Space -- William Stafford
Take the whole kit -- James Broughton
Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End? -- Mary
Oliver
The sea question -- Elizabeth Smither
Variation
On A Theme By Rilke -- Denise Levertov
Sabbaths 1999, II -- Wendell Berry
winged energy of delight -- Rainer Maria Rilke
seeker of truth
-- e. e. cummings
The Poet Dreams of the Mountain -- Mary Oliver
AMONG THE MULTITUDES -- Wislawa
Szymborska
March 2011
Anyone Can Sing -- William Ayot
How David Did Not Care -- Robert Bly
Monet Refuses the Operation -- Lisel
Mueller
The Winter of Listening -- David
Whyte
The world is not a courtroom -- Saadi
Lots of sorrow and a little joy -- Gregory Orr
WHEN THE HOLY THAWS -- St. Teresa of Avila
For Lost Friends --John O'Donohue
(For the people of Japan)
The Sonnets to Orpheus, II, 29 -- Ranier
Maria Rilke (Mitchell Translation)
TOBAR PHADRAIC -- David Whyte [For Saint Patrick's Day]
The
Spring -- Delmore Schwartz
Another Spring -- Kenneth
Rexroth
The Apple Orchard -- Rainer Maria Rilke
An Ox Looks at Man -- Carlos Drummond de Andrade
April 2011
Sabbaths 1999, VII -- Wendell Berry
Standing Deer -- Jane Hirshfield
The Fountain -- Denise Levertov
Evening Prayer - James Richardson
A Suspended Blue Ocean -- Hafiz
Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron -- William Stafford
Another Night in the Ruins #7 -- Galway Kinnell
may my heart always be open ... -- e. e. cummings
Ninth Duino Elegy (excerpt for
Earth Day) -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Proverbios y Cantares VII -- Antonio Machado
The Dry Salvages (excerpt) -- T.S. Eliot
Searching
for the Dharma -- Xu Yun
No Title Required -- Wislawa Szymborska
A ROOT IN EACH ACT AND CREATURE -- Hafiz
May 2011
For a New Beginning -- John O'Donohue
Song of Myself #32 (excerpt) -- Walt Whitman
The Silence of the Stars -- David Wagoner
Nothing Twice -- Wislawa Szymborska
To Hear the Falling World -- Jane Hirshfield
I
Think Continually of Those -- Steven Spender (for Memorial Day)
June 2011
Piglet's Song -- Benjamin Hoff
It
Is I Who Must Begin -- Vaclav Havel
The Unnamable River -- Arthur Sze
In Blackwater Woods -- Mary
Oliver
In the Beginning -- David Whyte
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, XXII -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith -- Mary
Oliver
The Greatest Grandeur -- Pattiann
Rogers
WISE MEN KEEP TALKING ABOUT -- Hafiz
Quit your addiction -- James Broughton
And yet, though we strain -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The
Camel -- Wislawa Szymborska
July 2011
I HAVE COME INTO THIS WORLD TO SEE THIS -- Hafiz
Almost a Conversation -- Mary Oliver
My Sweet, Crushed Angel -- Hafiz
The Bell Ringer (excerpt) -- David Whyte
A Map to the Next World -- Joy Harjo
Primary Wonder -- Denise Levertov
When the Shoe Fits -- Chuang Tzu
August 2011
Directions
(excerpt) -- Billy Collins
September 2011
With
the morning dew -- Antonio Machado
For The Time Of Necessary
Decision -- John O'Donohue
(For the tenth anniversary of 911 ... and
for the years to come)
Having Come This Far -- James Broughton
Let's remake the world -- Gregory
Orr
Lay Yourself Open -- Neil
Douglas-Klotz
September Meditation -- Burton D. Carley
October 2011
Not dawdling -- James Broughton
A South Wind -- Denise Levertov
At the Teahouse, 6 am -- Holly
Hughes
You Reading This, Be Ready --
William Stafford
i am a little church(no great
cathedral) -- e.e. cummings
Earth Your Dancing Place -- May
Swenson
All will come again -- Ranier Maria Rilke
Have You Ever Tried to Enter the
Long Black Branches? -- Mary Oliver
Letters to a Young Poet (excerpt) -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Lucky Mud -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Enriching the Earth -- Wendell Berry
Promise of Blue Horses -- Joy Harjo
A Prayer for Sleep -- Michael
Hartnett
I Saw Her Dancing -- Marge Piercy
Not the loss alone -- Gregory Orr
What I Have Learned So Far -- Mary
Oliver
Burnt Norton, II (excerpt) -- T. S. Eliot
How To Be a
Poet -- Wendell Berry
Twigs (excerpt) -- Taha
Muhammad Ali
A Usual Prayer -- John Berryman
November 2011
All My Body Calls -- David Whyte
Book of Hours, II, 16 -- Rainer
Maria Rilke
Talking to God on the Seventh Day --
Ruth L. Schwartz
WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT THAT MOON?
-- Hafiz
The Buddha's Last Instruction --
Mary Oliver
Autumn Quince -- Jane Hirshfield
The Waking -- Theodore Roethke
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